Last Updated: March 23, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how Roethof.net (the “Website”) collects, uses and shares information about you when you visit and interact with our Website.
Compliance with Dutch Laws
We adhere to the applicable data protection laws and regulations of the Netherlands. This includes compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as implemented in Dutch law.
Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information:
Automatically Collected Information: When you visit our Website, we automatically collect certain information about your device and browsing activity. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring website addresses, pages you visit on our Website and the dates and times of your visits. This information is collected through technologies such as cookies and server logs.
Information You Provide Voluntarily: We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, such as when you leave a comment on our Website. This information may include your name (as you choose to provide it) and the content of your comment.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
- To Provide and Improve Our Website: We use automatically collected information to understand how users interact with our Website, to diagnose technical issues, to personalize your experience and to improve the content and functionality of our Website.
- To Facilitate Comments and Discussions: If you choose to leave a comment using Giscus, the information you provide will be used to display your comment and facilitate discussions on our Website. Please note that Giscus has its own privacy policy, which we encourage you to review.
- To Ensure Security and Prevent Abuse: We use automatically collected information and information provided by Cloudflare to monitor traffic, identify and prevent malicious activity and protect the security and integrity of our Website.
- To Analyze Website Traffic: We use Google Analytics to collect and analyze anonymized information about website traffic and usage patterns. This helps us understand how visitors find and use our Website and allows us to make data-driven decisions to improve it.
Third-Party Services
We utilize the following third-party services that may collect information about your interactions with our Website:
- Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, to track and report website traffic. Google Analytics may use cookies to collect information about your use of our Website. For more information about Google Analytics and its privacy practices, please visit Google’s Privacy Policy.
- gstatic: gstatic.com is a domain used by Google to serve static content, such as JavaScript and CSS files, for various Google services, including Google Analytics. Your browser may request content from gstatic.com when you visit our Website.
- Giscus: We use Giscus for our commenting system. If you choose to leave a comment, your information will be processed by Giscus in accordance with their privacy policy, which can be found at Giscus Privacy Policy.
- Override Internet (Hosting Partner): Our Website is hosted by Override Internet. As our hosting provider, they may have access to server logs and other data related to the operation of our Website. Please refer to Override Internet’s privacy policy for more information. You can find it here: Override Internet Privacy Policy.
- GitHub and GitHub Actions: Our website code is hosted on GitHub and we use GitHub Actions to build and deploy our Website. While GitHub hosts our code, they do not directly collect personal information from visitors to our live Website.
- Cloudflare: All traffic to our Website is monitored and protected by Cloudflare. Cloudflare provides security services, including protection against DDoS attacks and other malicious activities. Cloudflare may collect and analyze website traffic data for security purposes. For more information, please refer to Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy at Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
- BuyMeACoffee: We use BuyMeACoffee to accept donations. If you choose to make a donation, your information will be processed by BuyMeACoffee in accordance with their privacy policy, which can be found at BuyMeACoffee Privacy Policy.
Data Sharing
We may share your information with the third-party service providers mentioned above for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We do not sell or otherwise share your personal information with third parties for their marketing purposes.
Your Rights
As per Dutch laws or GDPR, you have the explicit rights to:
- Right of access: You have the right to access the personal data we process about you.
- Right to rectification: You have the right to correct or supplement the personal data we process about you if it is incorrect or incomplete.
- Right to object: You can object to the processing of your personal data and to direct marketing.
- Right to erasure: You can request us to delete your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent: If you have given us consent to process personal data, you can withdraw this consent at any time.
- Right to data portability: If technically possible, you have the right to have the personal data we process about you transferred to a third party.
- Right to restriction of processing: In some cases, you can request us to temporarily or permanently limit the processing of your personal data.
When making your request, we may ask you to identify yourself. We request this information to ensure that you are the correct person to whom the personal data belongs.
We will generally comply with your request within one month. However, this period may be extended by two months for reasons related to specific privacy rights or the complexity of the request. If we extend this period, we will notify you in a timely manner.
If you wish to exercise any of your rights, you can do so by contacting us at [email protected].
Data Retention
We will retain your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, or as required by law.
Security
We take reasonable measures to protect the information we collect from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes on this page and the “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy will indicate when the changes were made. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Thank you for visiting Roethof.net.